Leadership Can Be Taught. Sharon Daloz Parks

them or simply because they have to sprint to the other side of the university for their next class. The instructor acknowledges the legitimacy of people exiting early on the first day, but emphatically lays out some clear ground rules that include arriving on time and not leaving early—“Essential,” he says, “in a class in which the class itself is the primary subject matter.” He also speaks of “norms of civility” that he trusts the class to operate with.

      This causes a woman to remark,

      “Related to that question, how about confidentiality, or should we change names and places to respect the people that we worked with and will be talking about during our case studies?”

      “That’s a tricky question,” responds the professor. “I think that would be a good question to take up on Wednesday when we talk in more depth about how the small groups will work and how the case consultations will work.”

      Then,

      “Okay, see you Wednesday.”